Performance-Based Personality Assessment and the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders

This innovative guide integrates the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD) with performance-based personality testing, formerly called projective testing, to showcase the unique contribution and utility of these tests when evaluating personality pathology. Contributors include international experts on personality assessment, some of whom developed the instruments themselves. The volume reviews conceptual foundations and available empirical research to identify key areas for further study. Vivid, extended case examples illustrate ways to use performance-based assessment data to guide AMPD formulations at varying levels of personality pathology severity and in specialized practice settings.